<p>Is “trick or treating” not PC in Cambridge? Not one single kid came to the door! H wants a little of the candy, but the rest is getting shipped out today to D & S – mostly to S where I figure his fraternity will make it disappear in no time.</p>
<p>Good work-out at the gym. My first session with a Personal Trainer is Friday. I made the mistake of telling him D is a PT – he’s probably wondering why I’m not in better shape …</p>
<p>CBB – D’s gym teacher in 1st-3rd grade was an obese woman who drove her truck out on the field rather than walk. (And screamed to boot.) D hated PE with her, and I didn’t blame her. (She was one of those amazing hires where she was brought on-board on a very part-time basis to teach adaptive PE for a few kids who couldn’t participate in regular PE at a couple of different schools, none of which apparently had principals that ever chose to observe her. She earned tenure, and then when a much-liked PE teacher retired, she had seniority and took the full-time position, at which point there was little we could do. Until she hit a child one day when D was in 3rd grade, and was gone the next.) So, I doubt your trainer will be all that surprised at anything.</p>
<p>I don’t know what’s going on with trick or treat. I saw no kids out last night and my bowl of candy is still overflowing.</p>
<p>I can resist the BlowPops and M&Ms until I find a home for them. The Reese’s peanut butter cups and Butterfingers are less resistable, but I will at least try to ration the remaining damage! Glad I got a workout in yesterday.</p>
<p>For me, the battle has to be waged at the grocery store checkout line. If I don’t want it in my diet, I just can’t buy it. Candy is the worst because a little bit is not enough and the stuff is so dense in carbs, sugar, and calories. I could eat 1000 calories of peanut butter cups once I got started, no problem.</p>
<p>Counting Down:</p>
<p>23 pounds is fantastic! That sounds like four 5-pound celebrations to me!</p>
My H took the car today, so I put the leftover bucket of candy in the car so I can’t get at it.
( we go to bed early and even the little kids didn’t start coming out till 7pm By 8:30 I just couldn’t stay awake anymore- we had been up since 4am.)
I thought this story was inspirational to give me a kick start after Halloween.
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4 Miles, 9:41 pace. Felt good to go back to a typical workout. The local YMCA is closed so no tennis until they get power. There’s a new efit30 workout today so I’ll give that a try tonight.
<p>Today was almost a 0, which would have ended my 30 day running streak. It is also my last day of freedom. I finally got myself outside and managed to complete my 7 miles, which isn’t bad for an almost 0. I just wasn’t feeling like going. It’s gorgeous here- 57-63 and blue skies while I ran. Did my hilly course- ugh.</p>
<p>I also signed up for a May marathon and am already going through the “what am I thinking?” routine. The price was going to increase today, so I either saved $15 or threw away $75. It’s Flying Pig in Cincinnati and is a meet-up for my women’s internet running group. My daughter is planning it as her first marathon. I should have signed up for the half, but I decided to try to run it with her. I am NOT going to train for speed at all- just to complete. Too much on my plate, but I don’t have to deal with it yet…</p>
<p>New here. Lost 35pounds and now working to keep it off. I mix my workouts up…gym, videos, running, walking, stairs, weights, rumba, bootcamp, inbound some great workouts online, free! But don’t think I am supposed to post links. Anyway, worth googling free workouts! Took me a year to lose the weight and now I’m at goal weight…went from suez 12 to a size 4 and size small…i feel awesome and it’s great ton find such a supportive diverse group…</p>
<p>Congratulations on losing five pounds 7 times. That’s awesome. There’s no reason not to post links to workouts unless it’s something like nekkid zhumba or whatever. I post links to YouTube workouts all the time. I think people always like to check out new ideas.</p>
Youtube links are fine. Blogs aren’t, but it’s helpful if you give us the name of the blog so we can find it.
Took a shortish walk today just had too much work to do more without feeling guilty about it. Tomorrow is a gym day.
I got a real-world workout this afternoon. We had three large tree limbs fall in the snowstorm. Dodged one major bullet as a massive top of tree hanging over the house fell, but the leaves tangled in branches coming down and the heavy end missed the house and embedded a foot deep in the dirt. The leafy end of the branch was leaning against the house.
Anyway, to move any of these three limbs required sawing them into pieces that I could drag over the edge of the yard into the woods. So, a couple of hours with a hand saw getting in my pushing and pulling exercises. Then, some farmers walks, dragging 100 pound limbs across the yard and down into the woods. I’m sore.
<p>Exercise tv has free work outs, look for envy girls workouts</p>
<p>Also body rocks -she does some tough fast work outs</p>
<p>Bur pees, and variations are amazing, do 10 rest, then do nine, rest, etc…in ten minutes you will have worked every muscle, done cardio, and younwill feel it, ifnyou need to, skip the pushup part…</p>
<p>The new workout trend seems to be mixing it it up with bursts of card in between weight bearing exercises…</p>
<p>Yeah- we know all about burpees on this thread. :)</p>
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<p>Zuzanna has been an inspiration for me. I learned everything I know about deadlifting and proper hip hinge from watching her do sandbag swings!</p>
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<p>One of the metabolic finishers in New Rules of Lifting is 10 kettlebell swings and 10 burpees, followed by nine and nine, and eight and eight, and so forth down to 1 and 1. I haven’t done that exact countdown, but it’s on my list to try.</p>
<p>Back to back workouts, because I switched from the M/W to T/Th classes.</p>
<p>Dynamic warm ups</p>
<p>2 rounds
2 minutes double unders jump rope
90 second plank
90 sec. wall sit </p>
<p>GUTS (go until time stops)</p>
<p>1 rep curl to press on Keiser machine, resistance 15 lbs.
1 air squat
1 medicine ball burpee</p>
<p>then
2 of each
then 3 etc. etc.</p>
<p>just completed ten reps of each, when time was up.
Shoulders are toast.</p>
<p>I cooked the much maligned brussell sprouts to go with my leftover pot roast tonight. Cross between a Bobby Flay and a Paula Dean recipe, with a little twist of my own. Cooked a couple pieces of bacon, pulled it out to dice when it was cooked. In the same pan I sauteed some onion and garlic, then threw in the brussel sprouts over high heat tossing for a few minutes, adding the bacon in. Little salt and pepper. Then deglazed the pan with some white wine, put a lid on the skillet, and let them steam in the wine for about 30 minutes. They were out of this world, as was my italian-style yankee pot roast.</p>
<p>Leftovers of both tomorrow. This watching my weight sure is hell!</p>
<p>Thanks, interesteddad. Have a long way to go, but DH and I are going to Israel in April and I want to climb Masada. I need to start exercising; my chemo drug does a number on connective tissue and joints, so I have been nursing various joint issues for several years now. Have started taking the dog for walks every evening; she likes it and so do I. Wish she wouldn’t stop so often to sniff the pee-mails the other dogs leave; it winds up not being a terribly aerobic walk.</p>
<p>Yum, I love brussels sprouts, and what’s not to love about bacon?</p>
<p>I haven’t touched a piece of the omnipresent Halloween candy and am finding it very easy to resist. I really think that not eating the sugar in the first place is helping me resist things like candy. I don’t even like the usual Halloween candy but in the past I have found it hard not to nibble.</p>
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<p>We’ll be here to remind you of this come April. 
Hope your new job gets off to a good start.</p>
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<p>Excellent. I am hoping to report similar results in the future.</p>
<p>I had a bunch of Hershey’s Dark bars and Reeses Dark Peanut Butter Cups this week - not Halloween stuff - we have that stuff in one of the kitchens and I didn’t have food because of the power outage. I have a Banana, Clif Builder Bar and Chili with me today - just grabbed it on the way out for an early appointment. I’m going to grab a little breakfast at the cafeteria when it opens at 8:00.</p>
<p>There seems to be a nasty head cold going around. My manager has it and took off yesterday and I think that he’s going home early today too. I may have had it last night - I was very tired and went to bed early - could have just been tiredness due to the power outage too.</p>